J. M. Roberts Quotes
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I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'
Sampha
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
Marat Safin
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Barack Obama
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
Zosia Mamet
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
Vernon L. Smith
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
Abbie Hoffman
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Don't underlook the Sixties; we started eating more vegetables, respecting women, and we shut down Vietnam. We did a lot of good stuff. But it shouldn't shut you down from the moment.
Wavy Gravy
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
B. B. King
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No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.
Kate Brown
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I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.
Kate Christensen
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In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
Jacki Weaver
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Oh, my family lived in 21 places before I was 17.
Dennis Kucinich
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These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.
Kevin Ayers
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I get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids.
Paula Poundstone
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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
George Carlin
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Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the system of procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, "with eyes wide open."
Nicolaus Copernicus
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This doesn't hit close to home; this hits home.
J. M. Roberts
